Monday, August 23, 2010

How to train your dragon(fly)

I took the kids to a local wildlife refuge, except it was noon and a million degrees, so the only wildlife out was dragonflies, and they were so busy trying to find shade it was nearly impossible to find one still enough to take a picture. This isn't, by far, my best dragonfly shot, but I do like his color.

Lynn - There were literally tens of thousands of dragonflies, and not one of us got a mosquito bite, so maybe that's why! In that case, I need a lot more dragonflies in my yard! We're getting eaten alive this year!

If I'd lived another life, I'd have been a world traveler, photographing the great and gorgeous places of the world. Instead, I am happily married and raising three kids in the suburbs, surrounded by concrete, strip malls, and traffic lights. There are more McDonalds than mountains, more cars than city skylines, more dirty dishes and laundry piles than sunsets and palm trees.

But I am determined to find the beautiful things around me, right where I live, even if I have to use a macro lens to find it.

About Me

Writer, photographer, mother of three. My debut novel, Some Kind of Normal (NorLights Press) landed on bookshelves late 2009. My shorter writing has appeared in The Potomac Review, The Fiction Writers Review, PANK, The Buffalo Almanac, and Campus Life. I earned my MFA in fiction from Pacific University in 2013 and my short story, Counting by Threes, has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.